Name
Walter Couper
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/11/1914
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
9128
Coldstream Guards
4th Coy., 2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
Plot III, Row C, Grave 7.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
St Mary's Parish Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of William Clark and Harriet (nee GULLIVER) COUPER of Watford.
His parents married 30 May 1890 at St Barnabas’, Pimlico, London. William died 13 June 1946 in Watford aged 84, and was buried 19 June in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Harriet died 31 March 1949 in St Alban’s, Herts, aged 82, and was buried 4 April, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Walter was born 24 March 1892 in Kensington, Middx, and resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, he is proving elusive. On the 1911 Census, a jeweller’s assistant aged 19, he was a boarder in Hoddesden, Herts.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Southwark, Surrey, 6 June 1911, a clock repairer; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 12 August 1914, and died at No 14 General Hospital, Boulogne, of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
There are articles about Walter in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 28 November 1914, and in the Watford Illustrated dated 7 August 1915.
He has a listing in that De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour.
Unfortunately, Walter’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing (though his father’s did!).
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
